Hey guys! Sorry I have been absent from my own thread - gotta work overtime to pay for fun car stuff, right?
Feel free to jump to the mod list below; I know I can make long-winded posts lol.
I *think* I have decided on a direction for my car/mods based on input from this thread, and doing some more searching and goal creation. I still don't have super lofty goals, but I have *something* in mind, and thus have a direction...
Based on much of the input from this thread, I think I have decided to not do an upper pulley at this time (seems like the general consensus on here, given my goals are not incredibly lofty...). If I ever need more power then I will look into it, but for now a lower will suffice. However, I do wish to purposefully limit engine RPM to stock 6200RPM for a few different reasons, so I am considering choosing a 9.55" (23%) pulley instead of the 9.17" (18%) pulley. This should come out to a maximum SC speed of ~19700 which seems totally reasonable and should not be outside of what the stock cam will allow in terms of airflow (given the propensity for tuning with most mod/pulley combos to spin these out to 6500+).
Additionally, after doing more research (and looking more closely at local availability) I think I have decided to do an E85 flex fuel setup. I have three places to buy it within a 5 mile radius, and if I ever find myself elsewhere in the country where availability is low, I can just run 93 instead.
Now here is where things get a little...unique. I kind of want to do this setup backwards, and be a bit of a guinea pig. I think I am going to do the entire fuel system first, and tune/run the car (in current almost stock setup) on E85 before doing the pulley. I've searched pretty hard to find what our LSAs will do in stock form running on E85, and thus far I have found *one* thread on a CTSV forum where a nearly stock car was converted to E85 and it ended up making about 550RWHP just from the fuel change. I kinda want to try it for myself and report back to y'all... Could be a fun experiment.
Updated mod list:
-E85 setup first (suggestions on fuel pump and injector size will be greatly appreciated!)
-Lower pulley second (leaning towards 9.55"/23% instead of 9.17"/18% for reasons above...)
-Cooling mods third/as needed based on what happens in the summer. Ted from JRE suggested on the first page that I probably won't need a new heat exchanger, so I am willing to hold off on it until I see what happens in the 110 degree Texas summers.
Along with those "big" things will come an ATI balancer, idler relocation bracket, cooler plugs, new belt, and a crankcase breather (inspired by JRE's different packages).
Leaning towards having the work/tune done by Aikman based on several recommendations as well as having spoken to them awhile back (BigBlockSS
), but have DMS as a backup for tuning if needed.
Thoughts?